The aftermath of the celebrity hacking scandal is evident on many of the news sites in the comments from the people reading the news.
The overwhelming majority of people seem to think that the fault lies with the celebrities for taking naked pictures of themselves and assuming they are safe when they are on their own personal cell phone or in their own personal cloud account.
How is that logic even reasonable. So let's just say that I decide at some point that I am in a loving relationship with someone that I trust and we decide to send each other provocative pictures, or even go so far as take pictures while we are involved in an intimate act. We have taken these pictures with a mutual trust that they will stay between us and not be shared.
With the immediate backup of my phone to the internet those pictures end up on some website that only I know the password to and we can access together later. If someone steals those pictures off of that site and posts them without either of our permissions that is technically theft and is a violation of our privacy. This is the argument that I have seen from the celebrities that are victims of this hack.
And I agree 100%.
Did you know that celebrities are just like us. They get naked and have sex and maybe make some bad choices but like all of us that write on these blogs we like somethings to remain private.
I have naked pictures of my wife, and had pictures of an old girlfriend and actually have some of the people that I have met on this site, and I would never post any of these without permission from the people in the pictures.
Where does it say that as a celebrity they give up their right of privacy? And I am not saying that on the street they can't be photographed or if they go without panties they can't complain when a picture of them exiting a car goes viral.
What I am talking about is private pictures that people share with someone they trust.
Yes American has to open up a bit more about sexuality as I have seen some comments indicating. But this culture of victim blaming and slut shaming has to stop.
Kate Upton and Jennifer Lawrence and the myriad of other celebrities caught up in this scandal are not sluts, they are not stupid or at fault for not knowing the consequences of technology. They merely took some intimate pictures of themselves that were meant for only a few eyes.
Please let us stop blaming the victims.
The overwhelming majority of people seem to think that the fault lies with the celebrities for taking naked pictures of themselves and assuming they are safe when they are on their own personal cell phone or in their own personal cloud account.
How is that logic even reasonable. So let's just say that I decide at some point that I am in a loving relationship with someone that I trust and we decide to send each other provocative pictures, or even go so far as take pictures while we are involved in an intimate act. We have taken these pictures with a mutual trust that they will stay between us and not be shared.
With the immediate backup of my phone to the internet those pictures end up on some website that only I know the password to and we can access together later. If someone steals those pictures off of that site and posts them without either of our permissions that is technically theft and is a violation of our privacy. This is the argument that I have seen from the celebrities that are victims of this hack.
And I agree 100%.
Did you know that celebrities are just like us. They get naked and have sex and maybe make some bad choices but like all of us that write on these blogs we like somethings to remain private.
I have naked pictures of my wife, and had pictures of an old girlfriend and actually have some of the people that I have met on this site, and I would never post any of these without permission from the people in the pictures.
Where does it say that as a celebrity they give up their right of privacy? And I am not saying that on the street they can't be photographed or if they go without panties they can't complain when a picture of them exiting a car goes viral.
What I am talking about is private pictures that people share with someone they trust.
Yes American has to open up a bit more about sexuality as I have seen some comments indicating. But this culture of victim blaming and slut shaming has to stop.
Kate Upton and Jennifer Lawrence and the myriad of other celebrities caught up in this scandal are not sluts, they are not stupid or at fault for not knowing the consequences of technology. They merely took some intimate pictures of themselves that were meant for only a few eyes.
Please let us stop blaming the victims.
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